Means for securing heel lifts on shoes



Aug. 10 1926.

R. E. PECKHAM MEANS FOR SECURING HEEL LIFTS ON SHOES R m m m By RaZ/ JF Peckham lzby ATTORNEY. v

Patented Aug. 10, 1926.

. stares RALPH E. PEGKHAM, DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

MEANS FOR SECURING HEEL LIFTS ON SHOES.

Application filed. July 10, 1925. Serial No. 42,648.

My invention relates to improvements in the manner of securing rubber lifts upon shoe heels, and its objects are: first, to pro vide a means whereby small lifts may be firmly secured upon ladies shoe heels; second, to provide a means whereby the heel retaining element may be made practically an integral part of the rubber lift, and, third, to provide a means whereby the securing element may be firmly connected with the shoe heel without bending the securing plate.

I attain these objects by the construction of parts shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the front of a heavy mans shoe heel with my securing element in place. Fig. 2 is a plan of the securing element disconnected from the heel lift, Fig. 3 is a plan of a small plate for use upon ladies heels, and Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of a ladys shoe heel with the lift and the securing element in place.

Similar reference numerals indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

This invention is designed as an improvement upon Letters Patent No. 1,512,858, issued October 21, 1924, to Albert E. Peckham, and of which I am now a part owner with said Albert E. Peckham, and the principal object of this invention is to provide a means whereby a sheet metal securing element may be successfully used upon very small ladies shoe heels.

When designing the present invention for use upon mens large shoe heels, the metal plate 4 is made of the same form as that shown in the hereinbefore mentioned patent except that I form several openings through the plate for the passage and perfect adhesion of the rubber of which the heel lift is made, while in the process of forming and vulcanizing the heel lift. A further change in the construction of the securing plate 4, or 4, is the forming of small, flexible tongues, as indicated at 5, through which the nails 8 are driven and which are drawn down firmly against the surface of the leather or wooden heel, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4, the sheet of rubber above the metal securing element having openings therethrough for the passage of the tongues 5, as indicated at 6 in said Figures 1 and 4.

In Fig. 1 the rubber heel lift is shown at 3, and the shoe sole or element to which the lift is to be'attached is represented at 2. In Fig. 4, 3 represents the rubber lift, and 9 represents the wooden heel upon which the rubber lift is to be mounted.

It is to be understood that the openings 7 in the plate 4', as shown in Fig. 3, are simply indicative of how said openings may be made, but they may be made of any available size, form or number within the limit of the size of the securing plate. The dotted lines in Fig. 3 are placed there to indicate the outlines of the rubber lift 3 as applied to said plate.

Fig. 1 should have shown a lift between the sole 2 and the rubber lift 3, instead of showing the rubber lift secured directly to the shoe sole 2, but as the construction and application of the plate 4 embodies the principal features of my invention, and as Fig. 4 indicates more fully the manner of attaching the. lift to the heel, I think no misunderstanding will arise from the showing made in Fig. 1.

The length of the tongues 5 is somewhat exaggerated in Figs. 1 and 4 for the purpose of showing, as plainly as possible, their application to the heels, and the openings in the upper part of the lifts through which they are to pass when nailing the rubber lifts upon shoe heels.

The tongues 5 must be provided with nail holes, as indicated at 10, to facilitate the securing of the lift to the heel of the shoe. The principal advantage gained by the use of the tongues 5, upon mens shoe heels, lies in the fact that the openings 6 in the heels may be made narrower than the plates and the plate may have a bearing all around the opening, producing better results than if the plate is bent upward into the openings.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new in the art, is:

1. In combination with a shoe heel, and a rubber lift to be secured to and to extend the height of the heel, a continuous metal plate vulcanized into the rubber lift near its upper surface, and having openings at intervals from the metal plate upwards, and tongues formed in the plate immediately under said openings and having nail holes therethrough by means of which nails may be driven through said tongues and into the shoe heel and draw the tongues firmly upon the surface of the shoe heel.

2. In combination with a shoe heel and a rubber lift to secure to said heel, a sheet metal plate Vulcanized Within said lift and therethrough above thetongu'es so formed havingopenings therethrough for the free that the nails may bedriven through said passage and perfect vuleanizing of rubber tongues and into the shoe heel and draw the 10 therethrough to make the sheet metal plate tongues firmly against the. shee heel.

an integral part of the lift, flexible ton 'ues Signed at G-rancl R-apicls, Michigan, July formed in the plates and having nail holes 8, 1925-.

therethrongh, and the lift having openings RALPH E. PECKHAM. 

